I sent 5 to myself yesterday at 4pm and i received them this morning at 6:30 am.

Looks like the site is back up:169315Toys Given!

The last message I sent yesterday and I clicked on this morning had an id of 263504 so there is a good chance the counter on the main site is over 100,000 off. or more people need to open and click the links haha.

I've just had a lot of "failed delivery reports" come back - the e-mails are all saying "The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that prevents additional messages from being delivered".

I'm seeing the same "failed delivery" reports. The error makes me think the problem is on the FBTB receiving side. The specific error message to assist in debugging:

450-4.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that450-4.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. Please resend your450-4.2.1 message at a later time. If the user is able to receive mail at that450-4.2.1 time, your message will be delivered.

i'm getting the same reports... which i can only imagine means that the plan is working, that fbtb is receiving an insane amount of mail, and that's the point, right? my email is also telling me that it will continue to attempt to send the email, so it'll go through eventually, i hope. hooray for ace.

cas is definitely right: They've added that check-point of having to type in the random numbers and letters. The front page will need to be updated to reflect the new step - no more just hitting the "back" button.

Epic Emperor wrote:The back button still works for me, the random letters/numbers stay the same.

Same here. Gotta love that poor implementation.

Now, I don't want to disadvantage myself in this competition for a chrome C-3PO I covet. But I do want to hit help on this good cause.

1. No mouse clicks needed. After the first submissin, just hit "backspace" instead of the back button and then "enter" to resubmit (IE browser)2. Now take #1 and look into an automated keystroke program. It takes some time to get the delays set robustly... But I may or may not have had my PC sending out cards for 6 hours last night.

Enjoy!

And thanks to FBTB for coordinating and facilitating this response to a good cause.

With the new captcha check in place, I see that hitting SEND, BACK, SEND gives me a second confirmation message 'Your message was sent'. The captcha code did not change. I also see that when I enter an incorrect captcha, no error message is shown, no send confirmation is given, and the form fields reset to defaults.

After checking my spam inbox I too have discovered a large amount of undeliverable mail. However, I have also discovered that these returned emails include the greeting card link! If they never arrive at Ace's inbox we can click on those links! Most recent ID I have seen is at about 375k, good work everyone!

and fyi, i have google handling fbtb's email. so far, i haven't noticed any significant gaps in the the time stamps of the emails i've received. if anything, the amount of emails per minute seem to vary. this story got picked up on slickdeals and dealnews so i'm sure that's part of the reason.

atxdad wrote:With the new captcha check in place, I see that hitting SEND, BACK, SEND gives me a second confirmation message 'Your message was sent'. The captcha code did not change. I also see that when I enter an incorrect captcha, no error message is shown, no send confirmation is given, and the form fields reset to defaults.

That's funny! It seems that they don't exactly have the best security on that site. Kinda reminds me of this: